In this 2021 Christmas Message, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has emphasised that through celebrating the birth of Christ, God comes as close to us as we are close to those we love most deeply.

Perth Members of the Plenary Council following the Perth Closing Mass of the First Assembly on 10 December. Photo: Michelle Tan. The fruits of the First General Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia have been gathered together in a new report that contains dozens of proposals to shape the ongoing Council journey. The more than 270 Plenary Council Members gathered online for...

Perth’s St Mary’s Cathedral will join in the battle against COVID-19 as host of a vaccination clinic over two weekends.

Speaking to Principals and teachers at the annual Thanksgiving Mass for Catholic Education Western Australia, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said that any Christian faith community, including an educational faith community, if it is to be a living expression of a gospel culture, must ultimately find its sense of purpose and identity in Jesus Christ. Photo: Ron Tan. Any Christian faith c...

The new Parish Religious Education program, Gathered in My Name, developed by the Catholic Education Western Australia Catechist Service, is finally complete.

A new book produced by the Australian Catholic Bishops titled Streams of Light: Easter Messages from Australian Bishops During Lockdown 2020 is a collection of sermons and pastoral letters of the bishops of Australia during the height of the pandemic.

We need disciples who are faithful and faith-filled, said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, at the liturgical launch of the 2021 LifeLink Christmas Appeal for Parish Priests and Parish Appeal representatives.

Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan has said Western Australia’s new Community and Family Services Amendment Bill will not protect children in any practical sense.

Confessionals across Perth, like this one at St Mary’s Cathedral, have been renovated to include glass panel doors and transparent sectioning. Photo: Michelle Tan. The confessional experience is a personal encounter between that person and Christ, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said this week. In a Pastoral Letter published Thursday 21 October, Archbishop Costelloe was speak...

In a Pastoral Letter published Thursday 21 October, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said the confessional experience is a personal encounter between that person and Christ. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The recent passage of legislation through the state parliament removing civil law protections around the confidentiality of the confessional has deeply disappointed ...